Over Christmas I read an interesting book called The Good and Beautiful God by James Bryan Smith.

It is a kind of discipleship course with practical exercises, one of which is simply to stop hurrying.

Last Friday I was packing up at the end of the day and I was hurrying because the city gets busier later in the day and I wanted to get home to rest. Just then, I remembered the book and I deliberately slowed down, washing my cup with care, leaving my desk nice and tidy, and switching the photocopier off.

I left the office a minute or two later than usual and as a result bumped into a friend from the seminary who told me about a ministry that might be interested in buying our materials.